Marked for Tilen Vendramin
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at NK Celje is saying, and nobody at ND Gorica is enjoying the guessing.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to ND Gorica's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at ND Gorica has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad24 Aug 2026
57 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Match22 Aug 2026
ND Gorica cannot find the net
4 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Jan Đapo in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at ND Gorica this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
ND Gorica asked and Olimpija Ljubljana said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at ND Gorica training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tilen Vendramin is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match22 Aug 2026
0‑2 to Rudar Velenje, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
In brief
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Transfer targets
A loan move for Matteo Pérez Vinlöf is in the works
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Transfer targets
A loan move for Bohdan Budko is in the works
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market17 Aug 2026
NK Zavrc come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and ND Gorica did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with Pandurii, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Jan Đapo was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match15 Aug 2026
ND Gorica cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Appearance number 100 for Miha Žejen
100 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Jakob Novak has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. ND Gorica know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Squad17 Aug 2026
7 new faces, and ND Gorica are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Tim Matavž commits to ND Gorica for another 2 years.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad3 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at ND Gorica this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tilen Vendramin falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market3 Aug 2026
The name of Taj Rožič Šuligoj has come up in conversations ND Gorica were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at ND Gorica, another week without a signature from Tim Matavž.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to NK Maribor: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.